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Dave Thomas
(American businessman)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
.
David "Dave" Thomas (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 2002) was an American
restaurant
owner and
philanthropist
. Thomas was the founder and
chief executive officer
of
Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers
, a
fast-food restaurant
chain specializing in
hamburgers
. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002–more than any other person in television history.
Biography
Dave Thomas was born on July 2, 1932 in
Atlantic City
,
New Jersey
to a young unmarried woman he never knew. He was adopted at 6 weeks by Rex and Auleva Thomas and as an adult would become a well-known advocate for
adoption
, founding the
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
.
After his adoptive mother's death when he was 5, his father moved around the country seeking work. Dave spent time in Michigan with his grandmother Minnie Sinclair whom he credited with teaching him the importance of service and treating others well and with respect, lessons that helped him in his future business life.
At 12 he got his first job at The Regas, a restaurant in
Knoxville, Tennessee
, then lost it in a dispute with his boss. However, there is currently a large autographed poster-photo of Thomas just inside the entrance of The Regas. He vowed never to lose another job. Moving with his father, by 15 he was working in
Fort Wayne, Indiana
at the Hobby House Restaurant owned by the Clauss family. When his father prepared to move again, Dave decided to stay in Fort Wayne, dropping out of high school to work full time at the restaurant. Thomas, who considered ending his schooling the greatest mistake of his life, did not graduate from high school until 1993 when he obtained a
GED
Dave Thomas became an education advocate and founded the Dave Thomas Education Center in
Coconut Creek, Florida
, which offers GED classes to young adults.
U.S. Army
At the outbreak of the
Korean War
in 1950, rather than waiting for
the draft
, he volunteered for the
U.S. Army
to have some choice in assignments. Having food production and service experience, Thomas requested the
Cook's and Baker's School
at
Fort Benning, Georgia
. He was sent overseas to
Germany
as a mess sergeant and was responsible for the daily meals of 2000 soldiers, rising to the rank of
Staff Sergeant
. After his discharge in 1953, Thomas returned to Fort Wayne and the Hobby House.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder
Col. Harland Sanders
came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them. At first, Thomas, who was the head cook at the restaurant, and the Clausses declined Sanders' offer, but the Colonel persisted and the Clauss family franchised their restaurant with KFC and later also owned many other KFC franchises in the
Midwest
. During this time, Thomas worked with Sanders on many projects to make KFC more profitable and to give it brand recognition. Among other things Thomas suggested to Sanders that were implemented; reduce the number of items on the menu, focus on a signature dish, and introduce the trademark sign featuring a revolving red-striped bucket of chicken. Thomas also suggested Sanders make commercials that he appear in himself. Thomas was sent by the Clauss family in the mid-1960s to help turn around four ailing KFC stores they owned in Columbus, Ohio. By 1968 he had increased sales in the four fried chicken restaurants so much that he sold his share in them back to Sanders for more than $1.5 million.
[4]
This experience would prove invaluable to Thomas when he began
Wendy's
about a year
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